Cellist JOSHUA GORDON has won acclaim from audiences, critics, colleagues, and composers for his dramatic music making and rich tone. A longtime chamber musician, recording artist, and educator who joined the Lydian String Quartet and the music faculty of Brandeis University in 2002, he is also an artist member of the Worcester Chamber Music Society and faculty artist at the annual Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center. He is equally at home whether performing on stage in famous concert halls around the world, in an Australian limestone arch cave, or with dancers on a Boston housing project basketball court.

As a guest artist he has played for ensembles and festivals including the Apple Hill, Cassatt, DaPonte, Juilliard, and Ying Quartets, Boston Baroque, Boston Chamber Music Society, Chameleon Arts Ensemble, Emmanuel Music, Fromm Players at Harvard University, North Country Chamber Players, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Portland Chamber Music Festival, Rockport Chamber Music Festival, and Speculum Musicae. His duo with pianist Randall Hodgkinson has been described as "insightful and impassioned" by The New Yorker, and their New World recording Leo Ornstein: Complete Works For Cello and Piano was named one of the top 10 classical recordings of 2007 by the All Music Guide.

As a Lydian, Gordon can be heard can be heard on critically acclaimed recordings of Beethoven’s late quartets and modern works by Martin Boykan, Mohammed Fairouz, John Harbison, Vincent Persichetti, and Kurt Rohde. He is also featured in recordings of solo and chamber works ranging from Roger Sessions and Charles Wuorinen to Morton Feldman and Gerry Hemingway on Albany Records, CRI, Cala, Koch International Classics, Naxos, and Tzadik. More info at www.joshuagordoncello.com.